A 'Slide' Effect of the Skirt's Comeback

Tired of awkward spin-and-jerk maneuvers, women are turning to products that glue the garments to their bodies

By

Rachel Dodes

Updated Dec. 3, 2005 12:01 a.m. ET

Like many women, Lesley Clark-Loeser, a 33-year-old dermatologist in Hollywood, Fla., has been wearing more skirts lately. But while her pencil skirts may be in style, they tend to twist around as she walks. When she looks down, she often finds the zipper -- or worse, the slit -- "front and center," she says. So she recently devised a new solution: Pasting her skirts to her hips with double-sided tape.

The recent comeback of the skirt has caused a shift in the fashion world -- literally. Women, tired of...